EVERYBODYS VENUE THE MAGAZINE

Everybodys Venue is a magazine that considers itself a venue for the performing arts, challenging the conditions of both magazine and performance expressions.

Everybodys Venue invites artists to reconsider the place of performance, the format of presentation and notions of transmission and reception, through channeling their work towards magazine distribution.

Everybodys Venue attempt to be a space for re-conceptualizations of what a discourse in the performing arts can be, questioning issues like documentation, dis/appearance of the performative act, sustainability and long term circulation and exchange.

Everybodys Venue questions relationships between spectator and performer. Is it the magazine that performs or the person reading it? And in the last case who is the audience looking and from which position?

Everybodys Venue is open for all kinds of expressions with the only condition that it’s printable on an A4 magazine format. All types of performances are possible, from images series to descriptions to scores to scripts to documents to instructions to empty pages to….

Everybodys Venue has no common layout aesthetics but is defined by the propositions made by the contributors.

Everybodys Venue is a concept that can be re-appropriated by anybody who would like to edit, print and distribute the following edition.

Everybodys Venue has a limited number of paper copies for distribution, but will be available on www.everybodys.be in a downloadable PDF format.

Everybodys Venue #1 will be a 100 pages magazine with 10 contributions from 10 different artist or groups.

EVERYBODYS VENUE

I would like to propose to make a test version of Everybodys Venue, a magazine that attempts to function as a theater venue. The idea would be to explore and practically experiment with the production of a “magazine performance” or possibly several performances. (Please see attachment for further explanation)

As we have only little time together, I propose that everybody brings a work that they specifically would like to adapt into a magazine performance. Working with preexisting materials would facilitate not having to invent an original content, but rather examining how a work can be readapted to another format; how specific formats of performance can allow other aspects of an already existing performance to appear. It could be a performance of your own, something you would like to re-question, re-develop or in case you have not already made work you can always borrow a ready made.

I would like to set up a discussion forum for what the specificity of magazine performance can be? As I have not yet done this myself we will have to define together the stakes of the project + we can develop it according to our specific needs and desires as a group.

As we will be dealing with preexisting materials, we will hopefully develop techniques of transposing from one medium to another, through descriptions, interviews, image series, comments, scores, scripts, methods, reflections, audience reactions and so on.

We will have to print the magazine ourselves! So part of the workshop will also have to do with operating in-design or other ways of thinking layout and presentation.

For the work shop please bring:

-a work you would like to readapt
-a computer if you have one
-other technical devises that might assist us, like recording devices, cameras and so on.